Rebecca Horn

born 1944

Rebecca Horn, ‘Finger Gloves’ 1972 — Finger Gloves 1972
© DACS, 2019
License this image

Biography

Rebecca Horn (born 24 March 1944, Michelstadt, Hesse) is a German visual artist, who is best known for her installation art, film directing, and her body modifications such as Einhorn (Unicorn), a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece. She directed the films Der Eintänzer (1978), La ferdinanda: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa (1982) and Buster's Bedroom (1990). Horn presently lives and works in Paris and Berlin.

This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. Spotted a problem? Let us know.

Read full Wikipedia entry

Artworks

Rebecca Horn, ‘Finger Gloves’ 1972

Rebecca Horn Finger Gloves

1972

T07845

Rebecca Horn, ‘Pencil Mask’ 1972

Rebecca Horn Pencil Mask

1972

T07847

Rebecca Horn, ‘Unicorn’ 1970–2

Rebecca Horn Unicorn

1970–2

T07842

Rebecca Horn, ‘Concert for Anarchy’ 1990

Rebecca Horn Concert for Anarchy

1990

T07517

Rebecca Horn, ‘Arm Extensions’ 1968

Rebecca Horn Arm Extensions

1968

T07857

Rebecca Horn, ‘Mechanical Body Fan’ 1973–4

Rebecca Horn Mechanical Body Fan

1973–4

T07851

Rebecca Horn, ‘Berlin Exercises: Dreaming under Water’ 1974–5

Rebecca Horn Berlin Exercises: Dreaming under Water

1974–5

T07625

Rebecca Horn, ‘White Body Fan’ 1972

Rebecca Horn White Body Fan

1972

T07844

Film and audio

Look Closer

Body Extensions and Isolation

Joey from Tate Collective London shares her perspective on Rebecca Horn's work In The Triangle

Still image of Jeanette Winterson - Conversations with Magic Stones

Watch

Jeanette Winterson - Conversations with Magic Stones

Prize-winning author, Jeanette Winterson, talked about work by four twentieth-century sculptors and installation artists who challenge the way we see ...

Features

Rebecca Horn, Performances I 1972 (film still)

Read

Rebecca Horn born 1944Moveable Shoulder Extensions 1971

Acatia Finbow

As part of Performance at Tate: Into the Space of Art, Acatia Finbow explores Rebecca Horn's Moveable Shoulder Extensions ...

Rebecca Horn Mechanical Bodyfan 1973–4

Tate Etc

Extending bodies

Lisa Le Feuvre

How artists have explored and utilised prosthetic technologies both to satirise humanity and help in the quest to expand the ...

Marey Trace of repeated muscular contractions

Tate Papers

Becoming Machine: Surrealist Automatism and Some Contemporary Instances

David Lomas

Involuntary Drawing

Henk Peeters White Feathers 2003

Tate Papers

Nothing but the Real Thing: Considerations on Copies, Remakes and Replicas in Modern Art

Lydia Beerkens

Lydia Beerkens. Nothing but the Real Thing: Considerations on Copies, Remakes and Replicas in Modern Art; Tate Papers, no.8

Participants in Tate Modern’s Summer Institute mapping connections between works shown in the History, Memory, Society suite, 2002

Tate Papers

Contemporary Art and the Role of Interpretation

Helen Charman and Michaela Ross

Recent research indicates that the taught curriculum in art and design secondary school education pays scant attention to meaning-making in ...

Related art terms

You might like

Stephen Willats, ‘Living with Practical Realities’ 1978

Stephen Willats

born 1943

Bruce McLean, ‘Pose Work for Plinths I’ 1971

Bruce McLean

born 1944

Paul Neagu, ‘Ceramic Skull’ 1973

Paul Neagu

1938–2004

Rasheed Araeen, ‘Bismullah’ 1988

Rasheed Araeen

born 1935

Paul McCarthy, ‘Painter’ 1995

Paul McCarthy

born 1945

Matthew Barney, ‘Cremaster 5’ 1997

Matthew Barney

born 1967

Mona Hatoum, ‘Measures of Distance’ 1988

Mona Hatoum

born 1952

Miroslaw Balka, ‘[diameter]1 x 3750’ 1995

Miroslaw Balka

born 1958

Margaret Harrison, ‘Homeworkers’ 1977

Margaret Harrison

born 1940

Francis Alÿs, ‘The Nightwatch’ 2004

Francis Alÿs

born 1959

Bruce Nauman, ‘Good Boy Bad Boy’ 1985

Bruce Nauman

born 1941

Bethan Huws, ‘Singing for the Sea’ 1993

Bethan Huws

born 1961

Rodney Graham, ‘Parsifal (1882 - 38,969,364,735)’ 1990

Rodney Graham

born 1949

William Kentridge, ‘Felix in Exile’ 1994

William Kentridge

born 1955

Gilbert & George, ‘Light Headed’ 1991

Gilbert & George

born 1943, born 1942